Bobbie Williams is a great player to have in the locker room, but you really don't want him starting everyday. He has really dropped off last year and i have a feeling he could get worst with the injury.

The Late for Work segment today talked about the coaches not being happy with McKinney's conditioning. So they pay him 500K and he gets out of shape? I'm not especially confident in Oher at LT or Reid at RT.

Seems like a dead off season for us this year not a lot of activity on this board I guess we are all burnt out from that crushing defeat vs the pats and Suggs injury it breaks my heart knowing ray Reed window maybe closed with cundiff and evAns failing like that

Nah, there just isn't anything to talk about. At least training camp starts somewhat soon and we'll have something to discuss. I can't wait to see how the OL competition turns out. There really aren't any other important positional battles left to be decided. The next best thing might be... Jimmy Smith vs. Cary Williams?

Nah, there just isn't anything to talk about. At least training camp starts somewhat soon and we'll have something to discuss. I can't wait to see how the OL competition turns out. There really aren't any other important positional battles left to be decided. The next best thing might be... Jimmy Smith vs. Cary Williams?

Yeah it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. I have a feeling Bobbie Williams will be our week 1 starter at LG. I'd prefer KO or Jah to win it and Williams be a swing guard who can play both sides. From the outside looking in, I like Jah the most of those three but part of me thinks that if Oher/McKinnie get hurt, they'd be much more comfortable with Jah at OT than KO so he is important to have as the #3 OT. But then again, Yanda can play tackle too so who knows. We have the flexibility to shuffle guys around if there's an injury but obviously that's not ideally what you want to be doing for chemistry - especially with three very young guys.

Could just be NFL.com being themselves and making a story out of nothing, but I think it's worth tracking. Reed is none too pleased with his situation in Baltimore, it would seem. I also read recently over on PFW (I know, I know) that there are rumblings in the NFL that the overall talent on the Ravens roster has dropped considerably since the golden days. They always do an "Inside the NFL" section with quotes from other execs and they had one last week about how the Ravens are one of the consistent underachievers of the NFL, along with the Cowboys and Chargers. Makes sense, in an odd way.

As far as the offensive line goes, it'd be extremely interesting if the coaching staff felt Yanda was best served at RT. Oher - Osemele - Gradkowski - Reid - Yanda is an interesting lineup for the future.

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Whatever he's expecting to get, he won't get anywhere near what we would pay him if he decided to go somewhere else. What GM would pay an aging injury prone safety who is constantly going "I might retire, I might play"? Stupid motherfrakker black balled himself.

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Reed is just a wierd dude. I have talked to ppl who own sports memorabilia stores and they said he beats to his own drum. He doesnt have an agent and this quasi brett favre retirement BS is a terrible idea when it comes to getting a new deal. I just hope he plays and plays well.

Rice's new contract has opened up some cap space for the Ravens. They're a little over $3.3 million under now.

Better than the $600k or whatever we were at before the deal. I know they have ways of structuring deals to get the lowest cap number possible but I just don't see how Flacco getting a new deal this year is feasible.

Franchising Flacco would cost $15 mil. if they don't agree to a deal. Even if they did tag him and sign him at the last second like we've seen the last two years there would be a lot of money tied up with that tage and they wouldn't have as much flexibility in free agency. If they tag him at all I hope it's with the transition tag but this is a deal I see getting done shortly before free agency starts.

We'll get him a deal either during the season or shortly afterwards. Everyone will freak out and say we overpaid, then we'll over rationalize it, and in 2 years the deals will look fine and we can all complain about the next most recent signed player.

It shouldn't be, not in today's NFL. The team doesn't need Lewis taking on blockers either so I don't think it's a big issue. What he does need is to get some of his speed back and this might help a bit. Last season was the first time I think we've seen Lewis blatantly lose a step.